Modernism vs. Postmodernism

Some of the characteristics of modernism and postmodernism that we talked about at the last meeting. (From Ihab Hassan's The Dismemberment of Orpheus, full list here)

Modernism.....................................Postmodernism

Form (conjunctive, closed)...............Antiform (disjunctive, open)

Design.............................................Chance

Art Object/Finished Work................Process/Performance/Happening

Creation/Totalization......................Decreation/Deconstruction [Derrida]

Centering........................................Dispersal

Genre/Boundary..............................Text/Intertext [Julia Kristeva]

Selection.........................................Combination

Narrative/Grande Histoire...............Anti-narrative/Petit Histoire [Lyotard]

Determinacy...................................Indeterminacy

We also talked quite a bit about:

Universality.....................................Relativity

others to explore further

Modernism...................................Postmodernism

Romanticism/Symbolism...............Pataphysics/Dadaism

Hierarchy.......................................Anarchy

Mastery/Logos..............................Exhaustion/Silence

Synthesis......................................Antithesis

Presence.......................................Absence

Paradigm......................................Syntagm

Root/Depth...................................Rhizome/Surface [Deleuze & Guattari]

Interpretation/Reading..................Against Interpretation/Misreading

Signified........................................Signifier

Lisible (Readerly)...........................Scriptable (Writerly) [Roland Barthes]

Type..............................................Mutant

Paranoia........................................Schizophrenia [Deleuze & Guattari]

God the Father..............................The Holy Ghost

Metaphysics..................................Irony